Word: moppet
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...Correspondent Barnes the Communist-primed pupils in No. 25 sharply criticized the New Haven scrapbook last week. They pointed to a crayon map on which they said the Ukraine had been incorrectly drawn-a charge hotly denied in New Haven next day by the drawer, Moppet Walter Matwych whose parents are Ukrainian. Leafing on through the scrapbook, the Moscow children pointed disapprovingly to a pasted-in-picture of Pilgrim Fathers giving Red Indians a turkey dinner on the first Thanksgiving Day. "Quite capitalistic!" they commented, "Quite bourgeois! Here the white colonists are fraternizing with the natives, but not long afterward...
...mostly merry. In a musical-comedy age she played one of the star parts, and the applause has not yet died away. Born in the slums of London, her father dead and her mother already a drunkard, Nell served drinks in a bawdy-house when she was still a moppet. She was only 10 when the Restoration brought her future lover, Charles II, back to England. Puritanism no longer darkened the doors of theatres, and as a great innovation women were allowed to play female parts. From selling oranges in the pit Nell graduated to the stage, at 15 played...
Many a U. S. moppet has pestered his neighbors to buy a package of soap or bluing for 10?. He rarely had to explain that he had answered "that ad in last Sunday's 'funnies.' " The fascinating advertisement in the comic section of his Hearstpaper had told him that for the proceeds of 24 sales, plus a small charge "for wrapping and mailing," he might have a marvellous motion picture machine; or a real cowboy suit. Enterprising little girls were offered talking dolls...
...playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...